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We want to welcome you to our Algood Business Accociation web site and best kept secret of Tennessee... Our Town of Algood. We are here to help bring businesses together that are already established. And, not only that, but to help bring companies to Algood because of the wonderful opportunities that are available for this.

 

About Algood - Until rails reached the area around 1891, Algood was farmland – much of it owned by Joel Algood, and known as “Algood Oldfields.”

The Nashville and Knoxville RR bought land from him for a depot and called it “Algood,” thus naming the community which grew up around the station.

Algood incorporated in 1891 and grew rapidly. The rails carried out agricultural products, notably poultry and eggs. (The town once called itself the “Chicken Capital of the World.”)

Algood also was the terminus for a 22-mile Tennessee, Kentucky and Northern RR spur line from Livingston in Overton County. A quaint gasoline-powered trolley rolled along these rails in the early 1900s.

 

Algood Geography - The town of Algood is situated at the base of Algood Mountain (el. 1,456 feet (444 m)), one of a series of low, wide ridges in the area that present as "stair steps" from the Cumberland Plateau to the Highland Rim. Algood is centered along State Route 42 (Main Street) just east of the road's two junctions with State Route 111.